Re: Reverse Shell?
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:09:46 -0400
Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2005 10:50 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (11/07/05 09:29), Jacob S wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a way to do a reverse shell over ssh? Let me
> > > explain what I am trying to do.
> > >
> > > I have a friend that I'm helping upgrade Debian on their desktop.
> > > This friend is not very computer literate - even in Windows. So
> > > they're having a problem that I need to troubleshoot, but they're
> > > behind a firewall so I can't ssh into their computer.
>
> It's not a shell, but I've done it with TightVNC. My client was on an
> XP system, behind a firewall, where he knew NOTHING of the firewall
> policies or IP address. I'm on Linux, behind my own firewall. This
> is more or less OS independent, as long as TightVNC works on the OSs
> you are using. Since I could not get through his firewall, he ran
> TightVNC server, then added my IP address as a client. My firewall
> was set to forward that port to my workstation, I had TightVNC Client
> running AND listening on my workstation, and as soon as he said he
> had entered my IP addy, I got a window in KDE of his desktop and
> could do what I wanted.
That's a good thought, too. I'll have to write it down for helping my
Windows friends. I think the ssh solution is probably going to be
easiest in the current case, since I only need cli access, but I'll have
to research the TightVNC stuff further - it looks very helpful.
Thanks,
Jacob
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